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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Let’s get back to the point.  Benchmark still sucks after a year.  And yes, I’m a teacher.  I’m a pretty decent teacher who used to do rigorous, challenging work in reading and writing, and creative projects with my upper elementary kids.  Now that I’m doing Benchmark there’s no time to do any of that, and I hate teaching language arts.  Needless to say, my students, who are smart, hate it too.  I’ve got to find a way to get back to what I used to do, when kids were more excited and inspired.[/quote]

Decent or Good or Great?

Leaving that alone I want to know what your challenging and rigorous writing and work entailed? Did you cover spelling, affixes, comprehension strategies, annotations, grammar introduction and reinforcement? Did you provide and critical feedback and correct on the writing assignments?

Please note I’m not accusing I’m seeking clarity and details.[/quote]

I am a different teacher and I whole heartedly agree. The one thing I do like about benchmark is the mix of genres focused on a specific subject. But the readings chosen aren’t very engaging and some are dated. Last year my kids did a ton of creative writing. While I like that there are essays, there is very little creative writing. I always gave feedback on their writing. The vocabulary instruction for upper is a joke and I did more with greek/latin roots previously. They don’t hit greek/latin roots in the 6th grade curriculum until Unit 5. We have had two lessons so far on some roots and have on more coming up. Last year, the majority of the word study I did was greek and latin roots. I plan on making adjustments next year. [/quote]

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